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Knopf
November 2008
On Sale: November 4, 2008
160 pages
ISBN: 1400045002
EAN: 9781400045006
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What is it to be in love with a pathological liar and
fantasist? Esther is, and has been for more than twenty
years. Lajos, the liar, married her sister, and when she
died, Lajos disappeared. Or did he? And Esther? She was
left with her elderly cousin, the all-knowing Nunu, and a
worn old house, living a life of the most modest comforts.
All is well, but all is tired. Until a telegram arrives announcing that, after all these
years, Lajos is returning with his children. The news
brings both panic and excitement. While no longer young and
thoroughly skeptical about Lajos and his lies, Esther still
remembers how incredibly alive she felt when he was around.
Lajos’s presence bewitches everyone, and the greatest part
of his charm—and his danger—lies in the deftness with which
he wields that delicate power. Nothing good can come of
this: friends rally round, but Lajos’s arrival, complete
with entourage, begins a day of high theater. Esther’s Inheritance has the taut economy of Márai’s
Embers, and presents a remarkable narrator who delivers the
story as both tragedy and comedy on an intimate scale that
nevertheless has archetypal power.
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